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Noun: Jemaah Islamiyah
  1. A clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia
    - JI, Islamic Group, Islamic Community, Malaysian Mujahidin Group, Malaysia Militant Group

Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization

Encyclopedia: Jemaah Islamiyah